#118: Sustainable Street Furniture for Joyful Public Spaces, with Furnitubes

About this episode

This episode features a conversation with Catherine Barratt about sustainable street furniture and its impact on public spaces.

This episode is a conversation with Catherine Barratt, Managing Director of Furnitubes. Furnitubes create modular street furniture that helps to bring communities together. In this episode we discuss how they are innovating with sustainable materials and manufacturing processes to create lower impact furniture at the same price. Furnitubes Website: https://www.furnitubes.com/ The Green Room podcast: https://www.furnitubes.com/podcasts/ - - - Subscribe to the Green Urbanist Newslette...

People in this episode

Host: Ross O'Ceallaigh

Guest: Catherine Barratt

Topics covered

• sustainable street furniture
• public spaces
• community engagement
• sustainable materials
• manufacturing processes

Keywords

• sustainable street furniture
• public spaces
• Furnitubes
• community
• sustainability

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Furnitubes, Green Urbanist, Furnitubes Website, The Green Room podcast

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